Mumbai, Nov 21: Shobha Joshi, 54, of Dhule will have her first baby, rather babies, 35 years after marriage. A scan has revealed she will have twins, the delivery due in seven months.
She was set on the road to motherhood by the Origin International Fertility Centre in Thane, 300 km from Dhule. Her husband Vidyadhar, a Brahmin priest, had unwrapped an offering of rice and read a newspaper report on how the clinic had helped parents have a child through surrogacy.
“She insisted on visiting the clinic,” he said. Their journey moved Dr Sandeep Mane: “I took this as a challenge without giving them any false hopes.
I knew they would not be able to afford the treatment if we charged them.” He and his wife Dr Rajashree Mane found a small bone, remnant of a previous miscarriage, still embedded in her womb.
The bone was surgically removed, the woman was put on hormonal drugs and her cycles resumed. The doctor has put Shobha up at his parents’ house at Dombivli.
–Agencies